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1 avril 2013

It's raining.

Tropical rain isn't anything like European rain. It's not cold, for a start, there's none of that freezing drizzle that bites into your skin and makes you huddle inside your anorak. You can go out in the rain here and actually stay under it for as long...

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Tags: mayotte, school, lesson, rain, rainy season, children, adult, dentist

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21 février 2013

Things students say...

I was happily teaching my students all about various states, cities, monuments and cultures of the United States of America. Then I gave them a test... and as usual, I didn't recognize my original lesson at all. I have now learnt that... Per year, Yellowe...

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Tags: house, pupils, school, teacher, lesson, white, students, work, america, barack, obama, usa

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14 février 2013

Hot Blushes

I started drama lessons with the kids this afternoon. The first task was an improvisation sketch in small groups: you have just received an anonymous Valentine's card. How do you react? One girl beckoned me over and said: "Miss, I can't do this." "Why...

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Tags: black, school, white, students, valentine, kids, blush, drama, improvisation, theatre, red

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21 janvier 2013

Right. Where do I start?

I am frequently asked what my students' level of English is like. It is, after all, their third language after Shimaorese and French... and it's not as though they speak the first two properly. English is very difficult for most of the kids. Their fluency...

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Tags: school, teacher, english, students, test, word, bob, both, culture, elvis, language, marley, neither, noun, presley, verb, whereas

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24 décembre 2012

Rich gentlemen have it, boys!

On the last day of school, my class - MY class, the one I'm the main teacher of, the one I theoretically have the power of life and death over (or at least a say in what happens to them next year) - seemed rather excited. So did everybody. The holidays...

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Tags: food, class, holiday, school, death, cake, children, biscuit, hungry, last day, life, poor, present, sweet

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26 novembre 2012

Things pupils say.

I love it when... I love it when my pupils can't quite speak properly, but they try anyway. Faced with a picture of a baby learning to walk, they say: "She is learning to go". Brilliant. Sometimes, this turns into rather long-winded explanations because...

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Tags: mayotte, pupils, school, lesson, harass, harassment, learn, sexual, word

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8 octobre 2012

Let the Teacher do the Work

Recently, I've been taking my kids into the computer room. For a start, there are 15 computers, 4 of which don't work but which all the kids absolutely want to try anyway, "I'm sure I can make it work, Miss". Of course, they can't, so we all get frustrated....

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Tags: mayotte, mzungu, school, teacher, students, computer, finish, headache, kids

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10 septembre 2012

Sea's out.

Last weekend, yet another beautiful day, how tiring ;). School has been back for three weeks, so like every other teacher on the island, we went to the beach. At low tide. Very low tide. So low that we could actually walk right up to the coral reef drop-off,...

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Tags: mayotte, water, school, emily, coral, fish, sea, philip, tide

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25 juin 2012

Drama Queens

The end of the school year was on Friday, June 22nd, at twelve o'clock. For a while, a French teacher called Salima and I had been preparing a short drama show with the same class, each of us blithely unknowing of what the other was doing. It was one...

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Tags: girl, school, teacher, boy, english, music, traditional, dance, french, play, pregnant

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9 avril 2012

Present and Perfect.

I'm teaching my Year 10s the meaning of already and yet at the moment. In order to accomplish said feat, I asked them questions and got them to talk to each other about what they'd already done or not yet done that morning. Their morning activities aren't...

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Tags: mayotte, school, cake, present perfect, shimaoré, yeti, rooster

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